Improvement in cotton-seed planters



tout sata BARTEMUS SMITH, or HOOD SWAMP, NORTH OAROLI'NA.

Letters Patent N o. 105,006, dated July 5, 1870.

-oww MPROVEMENT IN COTTON-SEED PLANT'ERS.'

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To afl-l whom it may concern Beit known that I, BARTEMUS SMITH, of Hood Swamp, in the county ol' Wayne, and in the State of North- Carolina, have-invented a new and useful Improvemeut in Cotton-seed Planters; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear,'and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the annexed drawing making part of' lthis specification, in which- The figure represents a perspective view of my improved cotton-planter.

This invention relates to cotton-planters and My improvements consistin the construction, oomhination, and arrangement of' various parts of the machine, as will be more fully set forth in the following specification and claims.

The frame of the plantel', marked I in the ligure, has a rectangular form. and is composed of longitudi` nal and transverse beams dimly bolted together.

In the rear portion of this frame, the cylindrical seed-box B-has its bearings, its heads B being provided for this purpose with short journals which rest in boxes secured under such frame :The cylindrical' seed-receptacle is made of sheetmetal, or other suitable material, and has a door, b, through which to introduce the seed, which is discharged through a series of openings, IB?, as the cylinder revo1ves,'snch openingsbeing arranged midway between its ends, and in one vertical plane, atV such distance apart as to drop the seed at suitable intervals.

The ends of the seed-cylinder are closed by the heads Bl, which are made considerably larger in diameter than the former, and serve as wheels to support the other parts Of the machine.

In linewith the openings B2 in the seed-cylinder,

and directly in front thereof, the colter or plow O is arranged Y pendent from the center beam Abf. the frame.A It Opens a furrow in the bed as the machine is drawn along, into which the seed is dropped.

A barrow, D, represented V-shaped in this instance,

is attached to the front portion ofthe frame, which pul-` verizes the earth, and thus puts it in a more favorable condition for the reception Of the seed.

E E represent the handles, which maybe of anyv convenient form, 'and attached to the franne in the usual manner.

, F represents the coverer Suspended in rear of the lseed-cylinder from the frame by arms, Ff, pivoted at f to such frame. 1t is simply a squared piece of timber, a little hollowed out in its central portion in front,

so as to enable it to push the earth thrown up by the plow back into the furrow to cover the seed. y

A cord o'r chain, F2, is attached to it, by which it maybe lifted from the ground by the operator.

Having thus described my invention,

What-I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Witnesses A. B. K1N-say, OWEN PEEL. 

